FACT: Members of Both Parties Believe Bush Broke the Law

The White House is desperate to make the controversy about Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping a partisan issue. Press Secretary Scott McClellan issued this statement last night:

The NSA’s terrorist surveillance program is targeted at al Qaeda communications coming into or going out of the United States…Senate Democrats continue to engage in misleading and outlandish charges about this vital tool…It defies common sense for Democrats to now claim the administration is acting outside its authority…

But it’s not a partisan issue. Some of the harshest criticism have come not from Senate Democrats but Senate Republicans:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): “The FISA Act was-created a court set up by the chief justice of the United States to allow a rapid response to requests for surveillance activity in the war on terror. I don’t know of any legal basis to go around that.”